New Site! ...Again!

Hello fans and future fans! Welcome to my completely new, completely W3C approved website layout! It's shiny and filled with lovely automated things that will make my e-life a little easier. Kind of like this news post. Used to, I had to manually update the list whenever I made a post. But now I just type it here into Blogger, and it puts it on my home page and news page immediately! PROGRESS!

If you're a web designer, stop laughing.

Anyway, I...well, uh...kinda earned everything Newgrounds has to offer for a single video other than a golden tank trophy because of No Service. I mean, just...good lord, HOW? It never even seemed like that phenomenal of an idea. Guess that just verifies that I have absolutely no idea what I'm actually doing. Thanks so much to everyone for supporting it! I guess I'll have to use the prize money for more productions. That, and maybe Minecraft server hosting.

So everyone enjoy the new site! Drop me an email to let me know what you think!

Last Thoughts for 2011

Alrighty, looks like this year is pretty much wrapped up. I am going to release one more short Youtube video advertising our Minecraft server, which will bring this year's video total up to ten! That's a whole three more videos than last year, which was five more than the year before that! So see, I am speeding up! Just very slowly...

Also, within the past few days, I've managed to release episode 15 of White Noise, available now, bringing us to 14 episodes for 2011. It seems small, but I have a crafty excuse for that one too: you may recall that at the beginning of the year, we stated that until we got a big enough audience, we would release an episode every month. Now, we certainly didn't do that, but we do have two more episodes than there are months, so I think that says something. 

As for 2012, Ian and I are going to start it off right by deciding on and writing several videos, live-action and cartoon, about a week after Christmas, and I'm gonna get started on them all right away as I try to beat this year's video record. I'm also not going to mention ANY specific release dates this year, because I suck at it. The only one I'm nailing down is the Yoda's Christmas remake, which I've set as December 1, 2012.

So, that said, I'm more or less retiring for this year. Thanks to everyone for all their support over the months! I really appreciate it. In fact, as a bonus gift, here's a link to the last thing I've done this month: it's a webcomic I've started for leftover jokes :)

Merry Wintertime Holidays to All!

Captain Spectacular

August is my magic month, eh? Last year it was the month of my accidentally awesome Fable II Experience, and now I've FINALLY finished Captain Spectacular. Since I live a couple hours behind New York, which is where the Newgrounds offices are located, I technically uploaded the video around 1:00 this morning, and so have the entire day to gather points. Hope I get front page again at least! After I take a breather, I'm going to be working on Trailer Month, which will be exactly what the name implies. What videos will the trailers be for? You'll have to wait and see :) When will they be out? I'm not even gonna try...Before those, though, should be our live-action Portal-based fight scene, which I'm doubling the usefulness of by turning it in for a class.

Anyway, glad to be back on Newgrounds, and hopefully I'll stay a little longer this time. Everyone enjoy the videos!

Nmbfting

Alright, so here's the deal. A few months ago I was totally doing tons of work on various projects when I was suddenly sucked through a swirling vortex in my computer moniter and into a mystical land called Nmbfting. I quickly learned that it was almost impossible to escape from this alternate dimension, the portal to which can only be accidentally activated by totally being super productive and getting a lot of work done. The curse of this world is that, once inside, it's also impossible to ever be super productive and get a lot of work done on anything. It's just some kind of mystical force in the atmosphere, and is the reason why you can't escape, because that would involve being productive. Anyway, long story short, I finally discovered the way out, which I believe involved a marimba and a ferret, but the portal must wipe your memory when you exit because it's all very fuzzy.

So, now that I'm free, I'm one little recording session away from releasing Zucchini and Rhubarb, well into animating Captain Spectacular, have released episode 10 of White Noise, recorded episodes 11, 12, and 13, and will top it all off with trailer month, which will be four trailers of different videos I'll be releasing relatively soon (most within the year). I've also come up with a bunch more ideas, with the help of Ian.

So there. Valid excuse. No complaining.

Upgrades

The crew and I are going full force into summer this year. I'm still updating every bit of the site, we've spread to the Twitter (follow with the link up top), we have a LiveStream, and we will be getting together soon (and often) to start writing and shooting out videos faster than ever. We have a list of about 15 individual ideas so far and we'll be releasing them as fast as possible. Granted, the animations will probably still come along at the same pace. But the live-action stuff is going to improve and speed up A LOT. And you may notice that the name is migrating towards White Lightning HQ everywhere rather than just my standalone self as White Lightning.

Also, sorry for the lack of White Noise episodes lately. We've had an off couple of weeks, but we should begin recording again this week with Episode 9.

The Blog

I'm now using a Blogger for more convenient commenting on news posts. The forum is still there, however, so you can continue to enjoy its emptiness.